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 subjects, Madrid Museum.—Van den Branden, 1050.

PEETERS, JAN, born in Antwerp, April 24, 1624, died in 1677. Flemish school; marine painter, brother and pupil of Bonaventura, and master of the guild in 1645; was also a picture dealer, from 1658; spent six months in Holland in 1659. Works: View on the Scheldt (1670), Antwerp Museum; Destruction of English Fleet at Chatham (1667), Amsterdam Museum; Storm and Shipwreck, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Agitated Sea (1667), Tropical Coast, Cassel Gallery; Vessels engaged in Whaling, Darmstadt Museum; Cottages and Peasants, Dresden Museum; Storm at Sea (?), Schleissheim Gallery; do., Schwerin Gallery; Rocky Seashore, three others, Museum, Vienna; others in Harrach and Liechtenstein Galleries, ib. His son, Jan Frans, born in 1655, and his daughter, Isabella Josina, born in 1662, were also painters, and his pupils.—Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers (1874), 267; Kramm, v. 1264; Kugler (Crowe), i. 262; Van den Branden, 1051.

PEIGNE (Pegna, Pegnia), HYACINTH DE LA, born in Brussels about 1700, died in Rome (?) after 1766. Flemish school; landscape and battle painter, entered French service as an engineer draughtsman, then was in Sardinian and Austrian service; lived in Rome at an advanced age. Works: Two Views of the Pont Neuf in Paris (1743), Vienna Museum.—Kramm, v. 1265.

PEIRSON, DEATH OF MAJOR, John Singleton Copley, National Gallery, London; canvas, H 8 ft. 1 in. × 11 ft. 11 in. Major Peirson was killed in an engagement with French troops at St. Helier, Jersey, Jan. 6, 1781. Scene: his body carried out of the fight, while his black servant shoots the French soldier who killed him. Principal group all portraits, mostly officers of 95th Regiment. Painted in 1783 as companion to Death of Chatham; bought for National Gallery at Lord Lyndhurst's sale, 1864. Engraved by James Heath (1784); copied by A. Kessler.—Cat. Nat. Gal.

PELEGRET, TOMAS, born in Toledo, died in reign of Philip II. (1556-98) aged 84. Spanish school; pupil in Italy of Baldassare Peruzzi and of Polidoro da Caravaggio; settled in Saragossa about 1530 and decorated the façades of many palaces and churches. Painted also in Huesca, about 1550, the sacristy of the Cathedral. Pictures in oil in Convent of S. Engracia, Saragossa, attributed to him.—Stirling, i. 150.

PELEZ, FERNAND, born in Paris; contemporary. Genre painter, pupil of Cabanel and Barrias. Medals: 3d class, 1876; 2d class, 1879; 1st class, 1880. Works: Adam and Eve (1876); Death of the Emperor Commodus, Roman Girl about to Bathe (1879); At the Bathing Place, Little Chickweed-Seller (1880); Motherhood, Girl Selling Chickweed (1881); A Philosopher, Irreconcilable (1882); Homeless (1883); A Family (1884), M. de Lesseps; A Martyr, La Misère (1885); The Victim (1886), John G. Johnson, Philadelphia.

PELHAM, PETER, born in London (?), died in Boston in Dec., 1751. Portrait painter and engraver; the earliest artist resident in New England. Settled in Boston in 1724-26, opened a school (1734) in which painting was taught as a branch of education, and in 1748 married Mrs. Mary Singleton, widow of Richard Copley and mother of the artist J. S. Copley. Work: Portrait of the Rev. Cotton Mather, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester (engraved by Pelham in 1727). Engravings: Rev. C. Mather (1727); Rev. I. Moorhead (1731); Rev. Benjamin Colman (1734), after Smibert; Rev. W. Cooper (1743), Rev. I. Sewall, both after Smibert; Rev. T. Prince (1750), after Greenwood; Gov. W. Shirley (1747); Thomas Hollis (1750).—W. H. Whitmore, Notes concerning Peter Pelham (Cambridge, 1867).

PELLEGRIN, LOUIS ANTOINE VICTOR, born at Toulon in 1836. History painter, pupil of Charles Comte. Works: